Fred Mannering

Mannering was born in 1954 (November) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from South Fayette High School in 1972, received his B.S. degree from the University of Saskatchewan, M.S. degree from Purdue University, and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his dissertation committee consisted of Clifford Winston, Daniel McFadden (2000 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics) and Ann Fetter Friedlaender.

Mannering is currently the Associate Dean for Research[1] in the College of Engineering and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (with a courtesy appointment in Economics) at the University of South Florida. He previously held academic positions as Head of Civil Engineering and later Charles Pankow Professor at Purdue University where he received the Murphy Teaching Award.[2] Prior to joining Purdue University, he was Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering[3] at the University of Washington and Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University.

He has received numerous awards in his discipline. In 2005 Mannering won the Wilbur S. Smith Award,[4] and in 2009 the James Laurie Prize [5](both awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers). In 2016, he was named by the Eno Foundation as Top 10 Transportation Thought Leaders in Academia[6] as well as recognized as one of the Most Cited Researchers[7] by Academic Ranking of World Universities, Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (discipline: Civil Engineering). In 2019, his work in accident frequency analysis was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers journal editor[8] as one of four Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: Systems papers that have been instrumental in moving civil engineering forward or have changed the practice of transportation engineering, infrastructure, and development. In 2019 and again in 2020, he was on the list of the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, who were recognized for the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.[9][10] In 2021, Mannering received the Council of University Transportation Centers (HNTB-CUTC) Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to university transportation education and research.[11]

Mannering is known for his work in statistics, econometrics, and highway safety. He has published extensively with over 150 journal articles.[12] Some of his most impactful work includes research on household vehicle ownership and utilization (1985),[13] accounting for unobserved heterogeneity in traffic safety analysis (2016) [14] as well as his work on temporal instability in the analysis of highway accident data (2018).[15] He has contributed to the advancement of science through his teaching and authored two books: Principles of highway engineering and traffic analysis and Statistical and econometric methods for transportation data analysis. Mannering is Editor-in-Chief (and founding Editor) of the journal Analytic Methods in Accident Research[16] and past Editor-in-Chief and current Distinguished Editorial Board Member[17] of the journal Transportation Research Part B - Methodological.

• Mannering, F., Washburn, S., (2020). Principles of highway engineering and traffic analysis (now in its 7th edition, ©2020).

• Washington, S., Karlaftis, M., Mannering, F., Anastasopoulos, P., (2020). Statistical and econometric methods for transportation data analysis (now in its 3rd edition, ©2020)

• Mannering, F., Shankar, V., Bhat, C., 2016. Unobserved heterogeneity and the statistical analysis of highway accident data. Analytic Methods in Accident Research 11, pp. 1-16.

• Mannering, F., Bhat, C., 2014. Analytic methods in accident research: Methodological frontier and future directions. Analytic Methods in Accident Research 1, pp. 1-22.

• Savolainen, P., Mannering, F., Lord, D, Quddus, M., 2011. The statistical analysis of highway crash-injury severities: A review and assessment of methodological alternatives. Accident Analysis and Prevention 43(5), pp. 1666-1676.

• Lord, D., Mannering, F., 2010. The statistical analysis of crash-frequency data: A review and assessment of methodological alternatives. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 44(5), pp. 291-305.

• Anastasopoulos, P., Mannering, F., 2009. A note on modeling vehicle accident frequencies with random-parameters count models. Accident Analysis and Prevention 41(1), pp. 153-159.

• Milton, J., Shankar, V., Mannering, F., 2008. Highway accident severities and the mixed logit model: An exploratory empirical analysis. Accident Analysis and Prevention 40(1), pp. 260-266.